Friends & Colleagues
To peruse the news these days, one must be prepared to encounter all manner of weirdness - a bit like old-tine Western explorers who first ventured into the remotest corners of terra incognita as the ancient maps labelled them. Now, we can experience the same feeling just by looking inward, while cultivating the attitude of anthropologists. One big difference is that today much of the non-Western world, the 'Jungle,' are observing us (especially focused on our headmen) agape and staring in a mix of incredulity and foreboding.
Now that the collective West has all but declared a civilizational war in the 'others,' isn't it time to pinder the implications. The two recent statements by the President of the EU Commission and her Commissioner for External Relations paint a stark picture of what we are in for. As for the United States, our leaders may speak somewhat more obliquely, but our behavior is perfectly consistent in congruence with the Ursula van der Leyen and Josep Borrell vision of the world
Query: somehow or other, I missed the ballot that supposedly was sent all citizens of Occidental states which qualified them to vote on the proposed war of civilizations. Maybe, I got on Zelensky's 'hit list' at the time of the last membership list that handed Elson Musk the black spot. Have any of you been similarly disenfranchised?
"Here,
Bruges is a good example of the European garden. Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build - the three
things together. . . . Most of
the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. . . . “ -https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/european-diplomatic-academy-opening-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-inauguration_e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdYQeEIccg
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